Connie Guglielmo

Silicon Valley-based reporter, commentator. Formerly w/CNET, Forbes, Bloomberg. Every day, an adventure. I believe in facts and taking time to pay attention.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The former president, typically circumspect when criticizing Trump, gave an unusually sharp rebuke at an Ohio rally. https://t.co/G3sOIH2OqO

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

To combat rising health care costs, people have said they are forgoing health insurance coverage, rationing their medications, cutting back on doctor visits and putting off health procedures. https://t.co/AuHBaaPvNH

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: What's the crime?

AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused.

BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac, one of France’s most wanted Resistance leaders. The German secret police sentenced him to death, and his execution was only days away.

At the same time, his wife Lucie was six months pregnant with their second child. Most people in her position would have gone into hiding, grieved quietly, and prayed for a miracle.

Lucie Aubrac decided to do something completely different.

She got her hands on forged identity papers, created a believable cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie. History would later remember Barbie as the brutal Butcher of Lyon, but Lucie did not let fear stop her.

She looked him in the eye and successfully convinced him to grant her a final visit with her condemned husband.

But Lucie did not risk her life just to say a tearful goodbye. While she was inside the prison area, she was secretly memorizing the positions of the guards, counting the minutes between patrols, and mapping out the exact route the prison truck would take.

She was treating a desperate situation like a military operation.

On October 21, 1943, that prison truck rolled through the streets of Lyon. It was carrying Raymond and several other prisoners toward what should have been their final destination.

What the German soldiers did not know was that Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a dedicated team of Resistance fighters.

She planned an ambush with absolute precision.

When the truck finally reached the chosen ambush spot, her team struck fast, coordinated, and without a single moment of hesitation.

In the middle of the sudden gunfire and chaos, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free from the truck. Lucie, who was visibly and unmistakably pregnant, had organized every single detail of his dramatic liberation.

Right after the rescue, the couple had to go into deep hiding. A few weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a secret safe house while German forces searched frantically for them across France. They managed to evade capture until the war ended.

When liberation finally came, the Aubracs did not just try to sit back and recover from their trauma. Instead, they rebuilt their lives and continued to serve their country.

Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life to help rebuild France's infrastructure. Lucie became a respected historian, pouring decades of her life into making sure that the women of the French Resistance were never forgotten.

She wanted to make sure these women, who were so often unnamed in the history books, were written permanently into the record. Together, the couple raised three children, traveled the world, argued, laughed, and grew old side by side.

Years later, journalists asked Lucie what had compelled her to risk everything on that dangerous October day. She did not hesitate for a second. She looked at them and said, "He was my husband. What else would I do?"

In his final years, he continued speaking publicly to young generations about the Resistance, the power of memory, and the absolute obligation to tell the truth about history.

When Lucie passed away in 2007 at 94, and Raymond followed her in 2012 at 97, they left behind a 64 year marriage that was a testament to the ultimate triumph of life and family over hatred.

Their love didn't just survive a war it blossomed into a lifetime of shared smiles, proving that the greatest force in the world is a heart that refuses to give up on the one it loves ♥️♥️

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

“Nobody knows anything,” Trump says about the Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother. Actually we know quite a bit about how that mom stuck by Acton’s accused pedophile rapist, thanks to court records and documents! cc @DonaldTrump

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Amy Acton’s estranged mother knew her husband had a daughter from a previous marriage who’d also accused him of rape.

But when 12-year-old Amy told her mom that he was raping her, instead of concluding she was married to a pedophile rapist she concluded both girls were lying.

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: A judge in New York on Friday decided the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe can pursue her sexual assault claim against the university and seven fraternity members while remaining anonymous. https://t.co/6jQhEbDHwN

[Forbes @Forbes]

Voters In Tennessee Say Machines Are Defaulting To Choose GOP Candidate Marsha Blackburn
https://t.co/BWGMUQ2vGl

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Barack Obama forcefully criticized President Trump at a midterm rally, accusing him of historic “incompetence” in Washington. https://t.co/Oge53ANW1l

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

NBC's Monica Alba deserves a spot right beside Kaitlan Collins on the Mount Rushmore of White House correspondents

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot. The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit.

https://t.co/88tGvV0P8O

[NBC News @NBCNews]

173 million people in the U.S. live within 20 miles of an operative data center — a number that would increase to 196 million if all the data centers that are under construction and a portion of those planned are built. https://t.co/kLKn0jLGQY

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

IMPACT: A week after ProPublica reported how organized crime is stealing food stamp benefits — aided by the government’s refusal to update benefit-card technology — the Department of Agriculture announced plans to adopt more secure cards with microchips. https://t.co/83LmYiDFTA

[ABC News @ABC]

The flu hospitalization rate in the U.S. is at the highest level for this time of year since the 2010 season, according to an update published from the CDC. https://t.co/JvF8w02LZh

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

NEW: Experts roundly panned DOJ's Alaska lawsuit as frivolous, viewing it more as an effort to sow distrust and chaos at the president's behest.

One noted it seems to cut against DOJ's own guidance about the limits of its role in election processes. https://t.co/cqoyVI1ubi

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

As our article factually reports, any suggestion that the administration is withholding aid comes directly from words spoken by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Here's a gift link to read the full report. https://t.co/tzBCoAiMkc

[Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5]

NBC reporter on Ramasamy ad: "But there are very serious sexual abuse allegations"

TRUMP: "Quiet!"

Reporter: "They make no difference to you?"

TRUMP: "Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?"

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Impressive questioning by @albamonica

[Connie Guglielmo @techledes]

Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod 25years ago today. I wrote about what it was like to be in the audience on the Apple campus that day. And yes, I still have my pre-1.0 generation iPod — and it still works. https://t.co/3mbfelrgkY

[Ken Tumin @KenTumin]

25 years ago, on Oct 23, 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod, the precursor to the iPad and the iPhone.

This 5-year old @CNET piece by @techledes about this iPod intro is a great read:

https://t.co/nMNSkE307u

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